On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 02:20:01PM -0800, Doug Bunting wrote:
> No, we're going to recognize that all POST operations are not
> necessarily not idempotent.
While it may be true that some service behaves idempotently for some
POST message or messages, the key point is that neither message sender
nor intermediaries can, a priori, know which messages those are. That's
why PUT exists (and is necessary), and why I believe it's an error to
label a POST based service as idempotent.
MB
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